On Nov 8, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Ole Troan wrote:

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>>> 
>>> the MAP node cannot any longer listen to a single IPv6 address for MAP 
>>> traffic, but has to intercept packets for a whole prefix.
>> 
>> - BR's of double translation have always had this property.
>> - Talking with Mark townsley, I got the understanding that this wasn't a 
>> real problem, at least with IOS.
> 
> everything can be _implemented_, that's not the point.
> 
>> => Clarifying this point would IMHO be useful. 
> 
> it is clearly requiring bigger changes to tunnel code. which unlike NAT code 
> is attached to 'one' endpoint.
> it makes co-existence of a MAP endpoint and native IPv6 nodes within a single 
> /64 much harder.
> 
> let us turn this around. what's the point in embedding a new set of CNP bits 
> in the IPv6 address, when the L4 checksum can be incrementally updated. 
> that's what everyone has existing code to do already...

I definitely agree with Ole here.

- Jouni

> 
> cheers,
> Ole
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